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  2. List of United States Supreme Court cases involving mental ...

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    Case Ruling Right 1981 Estelle v. Smith: The same doctor that evaluated the criminal defendant for competency also testified at the penalty phase of the trial. That violated the defendant's right against self incrimination. 5th, 6th

  3. Justifiable homicide - Wikipedia

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    According to Black's Law Dictionary justifiable homicide applies to the blameless killing of a person, such as in self-defense. [1]The term "legal intervention" is a classification incorporated into the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, and does not denote the lawfulness or legality of the circumstances surrounding a death caused by law enforcement. [2]

  4. Self-defence in English law - Wikipedia

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    The Law Commission's report on Partial Defences to Murder [41] rejects the notion of creating a mitigatory defence to cover the use of excessive force in self-defence, but accepts that the "all or nothing" effect can produce unsatisfactory results in murder cases. For example, a battered woman or abused child using excessive force because they ...

  5. Self defense shootings: When are you allowed to shoot to ...

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    Another shooting with a self defense claim didn't resulted in any charges. On Sept. 5, a man's security cameras alerted him to a man breaking into his garage on the 1600 block of Audrey Drive.

  6. Do self-defense laws allow too much room for deadly violence?

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    Rittenhouse’s case is an example of self-defense laws working as intended “Rittenhouse was not an aggressor. He was attacked by each of the men at whom he shot. Self-defense is a natural right ...

  7. Self-defense (United States) - Wikipedia

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    When the use of deadly force is involved in a self-defense claim, the person must also reasonably believe that their use of deadly force is immediately necessary to prevent the other's infliction of great bodily harm or death. [3] Most states no longer require a person to retreat before using deadly force. In the minority of jurisdictions which ...

  8. McDonald v. City of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742 (2010), was a landmark [1] decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that found that the right of an individual to "keep and bear arms", as protected under the Second Amendment, is incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment and is thereby enforceable against the states.

  9. Right of self-defense - Wikipedia

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    The right of self-defense (also called, when it applies to the defense of another, alter ego defense, defense of others, defense of a third person) is the right for people to use reasonable or defensive force, for the purpose of defending one's own life (self-defense) or the lives of others, including, in certain circumstances, the use of ...